Name-plate attachment for stoves or ranges



(No Model.)

G. G. WOLFE. NAME PLATE ATTAGHMENT FOR STOVES 0R RANGES.

No. 509,064. Patented Nov 21. 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GURDON e. WOLFE, or TROY, NEW YORK.

NAME-PLATE ATTACHMENT FOR S-TOVES OR RANGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 509,064, dated November 21, 1893. Application filed December 10,1892. Serial 110.454.775. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GURDoN G. WOLFE, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Name-Plate Attachment for Stoves orRanges,

My invention relates to an improved means for attaching to stoves or ranges an exteriorly located plate without drilling holes in the stove-plate to which the attachment is made. It has recently become the custom for the manufacturers of stoves and ranges to attach to them in some conspicuousplace thereon a plate containing the name of the retail dealer or agent to whom the stoves are sold as an advertisement for the seller. As heretofore used name-plates of this character have been connected to the overhanging front edge of the boiler-hole top or front edge of the hearthplate by drilling holes where the attachment was made, and connecting the name-plate thereat by bolts and nuts. To simplify this connection and to. do away with the necessity jectof my invention.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there is a plate of drawings containing eleven figures illustrating my invention with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of the illustrations Figure 1, is a perspective of a name-plate adapted to connect with the boiler-hole top or hearth-plate I ofa stove Where the edge is straight, and not curved, and by my improvement. Fig. 2, shows in a reduced size the name-plate illustrated'at Fig. 1, shown as applied to the edge of the hearthplate of a range. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged section taken on the line 00', x, of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, shows a perspective of a name-plate adapted to attach to one of the projecting rings of a cylinder stove. Fig. 5, shows in reduced size the plate illustrated at Fig. 4, shown as applied to one of the projecting rings of a cyllnder stove. Fig. 6, is an enlarged section taken on the line 03 m of Fig. 5. Fig. 7, is a perspective of a key-piece used to connect the name-plate shown at Fig. 1, (it having a straight face) to the coincidently straight face of the boiler-hole top edge, or the straight e ge of the hearth-plate. Fig. 8, is a perspecwhere projected from the sides and ends of rectangular stoves or ranges; and as shown at Fig. 4, the name plate N, has a concave interior face f and a convex exterior face to adapt. it for application to the edges or rings or plates projected from cylinder stoves which have rounded surfaces. 1 I

The letter E, designates the downcast edge of a stove-plate where projected from the sides and ends of stoves having a rectilinear form,

and c the edge-proper of such stove-plates.

The letters E designate thedowncast outer edges ofthe rings of cylinder stoves where projected from the body of the latter and 6 the edges-proper of said ring-form plates.

The letter K, designates a key-piece made with a facing-plate m, which where applied to the straight flanged edges of stove-plates is made straight as shown at Fig. 7, and where made to 'connect with the flanges upon the outer edges of the ring-form plates of cylinder stoves said facing plate is made with a rounded surface m as shown at Fig. 8, so that when applied the surface m will be in parallel contact with the stove-plate in either instance. Theletterp designates a projection formed on the facing-plate of the key-piece, and this projection on the key-piece K, is made with a shoulder h, adapted to be in line with, and to engage with the bottom edge proper of a stove plate where flangeddownwardly.

The letter 0 designates a boltpassage made in the projection 10 and the letter I), a

bolt having on its inner end a threaded nut W.

The parts thus constructed are connected as follows: The name-plate being placed ex teriorly upon the outer face of the stove-plate where projected downwardly with the rabbet.

n of the name-plate within the fillet or recess F of the stove-plate the key-piece is inserted so that its face-plate bears on the inner surface of the stove-plate where back of the name-plate with the edge proper of the former resting on the shoulder h, of the projection 19 when the bolt 1), is passed through the opening 0, of the name-plateand the opening 0 of the projection 0 and screwed into the nut W, until the downwardly projected edge of the stove-plate proper and the nameplate are drawn together and firmly secured.

While I have shown and described my invention as applied to the attachment of nameplates to stoves, it may be used for the connection of other parts or plates of stoves when used in substantially the same manner; and while I have shown the name-plate as made with a rabbeted edge designed to enter a recess o r fillet F, on the top edge of the downcast stove plate it may be used without said rabbeted edge 17 or the recess and fillet F, the function of the bolts used being merely to connect the parts. Instead of a nut threaded on to the ends of the bolts the latter may be riveted or headed. The function of the shoulder h, is to keep the name-plate in alignment with the bottom edge of the stove flange to which the name plate attaches. A

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with a stove or range plate having a downwardly projected flange or edge, of a plate made to face on the outer surface of said flange or edge; a key-piece having a projecting shoulder the upper edge of which is constructed to be in alignment with the bottom edge of the-stove or range flange; and a bolt connecting said key-piece, intermediately placed stove or range plate flange, and name-plate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth..

2. The combination with the downwardly flanged edge of a stove or rangenplate having a recess or rabbet in its outer face at the top; of a plate made with an inwardly projected flange on its top edge, and a key-piece or plate adapted to connect with said name plate and to include the intermediately placed stove or range plate flange substantially in the manner as and for the purposesset forth.

Signed at the city of Troy, this 24th day of August, 1892, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

GURDON G. WOLFE. Witnesses:

W. E. HAGAN, J. H. CARPENTER. 

